University Press of America
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978-0-7618-4832-5 • Paperback • December 2009 • $51.99 • (£40.00)
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Sandra Malicote (Ph.D., Indiana University) is a professor of French in the Department of Foreign Languages at the University of North Carolina, Asheville, and formerly chaired the Humanities Program and the Interdisciplinary Studies Program. Her articles have appeared in Romania, Romanic Review, Olifant, (Kentucky) Romance Quarterly, French Review and Contemporary French Civilization. She is completing a new critical edition (with A. Richard Hartman) of the Old French epic cycle the "geste de Saint Gille."
Chapter 1 List of Figures
Chapter 2 Acknowledgments
Chapter 3 Introduction
Chapter 4 1: Aiol, Illunination, and the Poetics of the Epic
Chapter 5 2: The Illuminated Geste de Saint Gille, Pictor and the Past
Chapter 6 3: Parody, Illunimation, and Genre Renewal
Chapter 7 4: Roman, Estoire, Exemplum: Illumination of Epic Compilation
Chapter 8 5: Illuminating the Old French Epic: Two Late Thirteenth-Century Franco-Flemish Examples
Chapter 9 Figures
Chapter 10 Selected Bibliography
Chapter 11 Index
[Malicote] puts into question the hypothesis of the 19th century editors and proposes another. Focusing especially on the prologue, the scholar demonstrates that the epic was born in the early 13th century in the context of the literary debate concerning the truth or fiction of narratives, 'true story' versus 'fables,' and 'court ministers' versus 'these urban or new singers.'
— Baukje Finet, Lat Tradition écrite de la chanson d'Aiol: Une Mise au point
[Malicote] has referred to the pairing of Elie de Saint Gille and Aiol as the "geste de Saint Gille,"…they are certainly closely related by virtue of their matière and characters, and hold potential for expansion and cyclification similar to that of other chansons de geste mentioned above…Indeed, in [Malicote's] view, the meaning produced in some respects forms a striking contrast with the basic concerns of the Old French epic in general.
— Keith Busby, Codex and Context: Reading Old French Verse Narrative in Manuscript